{"id":52338,"date":"2022-04-01T17:54:19","date_gmt":"2022-04-01T21:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/?p=52338"},"modified":"2022-04-01T07:56:26","modified_gmt":"2022-04-01T11:56:26","slug":"wu2d-and-dream-sw-receivers-of-the-1960s-and-70s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/2022\/04\/wu2d-and-dream-sw-receivers-of-the-1960s-and-70s\/","title":{"rendered":"WU2D and &#8220;Dream&#8221; SW Receivers of the 1960s and 70s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-17282\" src=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial.jpg 800w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/swling.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Scott-Marine-SLR-M-Dial-500x281.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a>Many thanks to <em>SWLing Post<\/em> contributor, Bill Meara, who shares this most recent post from <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/mike-wu2d-looks-at-dream-receivers-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">his excellent SolderSmoke Podcast blog<\/a>:<\/p>\n<h1 style=\"padding-left: 40px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/2022\/03\/mike-wu2d-looks-at-dream-receivers-of.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Mike WU2D Looks at the &#8220;Dream&#8221; SW Receivers of the 1960s and 70s (Video)<\/a><\/h1>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"625\" height=\"352\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/UDQpfBCh1zU?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Wow, I really liked Mike&#8217;s walk down memory lane. I saw several of my own dream receivers:<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">S-38E. Indeed, this little monster did add some danger to your life. AKA &#8220;The Widow Maker,&#8221; I gave one to my cousin&#8217;s husband so he could listen to what the commies on Radio Moscow were saying. He later told me that the receiver had given him a shock. I now have TWO S-38Es in my shack (two more than I really need). I have installed isolation transformers in both of them, so they have lost the one element (danger!) that made them attractive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">HA-600A. I got this one for Christmas in 1972. The A model is MUCH better than the plain vanilla HA-600. I recently got another HA-600A and found serious deficiencies in the Product Detector. Has anyone else noticed these problems? BACKGROUND INFO AND A PLEA FOR MORE INFO HERE: <a href=\"https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=HA-600A+Product+Detector\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/soldersmoke.blogspot.com\/search?q=HA-600A+Product+Detector<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">HQ-100. Got one in the Dominican Republic. Fixed it up, repairing damages caused by radio life in the tropics. Disabled the goofy audio amplifier circuitry. I now wonder if this receiver might benefit from the insertion of a 455 kc ceramic filter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">NC190. Wow &#8220;Cosmic Blue&#8221; Perhaps this was an early influence that led to &#8220;Juliano Blue?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">HQ-180. &#8220;18 tubes and almost as many knobs!&#8221; FB!<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">HRO-500. Love the dial.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Transoceanic. Never had one, but built a BFO for the Transoceanic that W8NSA took with him to SE Asia during the war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">R-390A. I don&#8217;t have a crane for the workbench.<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Thanks Mike &#8212; that was a lot of fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor, Bill Meara, who shares this most recent post from his excellent SolderSmoke Podcast blog: Mike WU2D Looks at the &#8220;Dream&#8221; SW Receivers of the 1960s and 70s (Video) Wow, I really liked Mike&#8217;s walk down memory lane. I saw several of my own dream receivers: S-38E. 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